Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-10

| but fortunately did not hit him. Mr.. Phil
/ lips then opened fire on the thief, and
thinks that one OF the shots hit him. He
does not know who the thief is, but if ne
is hit badly he Will be found out.
The stockholders of the Oglethorpe
Hotel Company, of Brunswick, met Mon
day. A quorum OF stock was present.
The report OF the board WAS read, received
and ratified. 1t showed deficit TO COM
| plete the hotel OF 500, 600, and should it be
necessary for the hotel company to fur
nish the building, by, reason OF Inability
to procure lessee able to furnish at his
own expense, then $50, 900 additional,
making total of $50, 1000 as the maximum
figures 10 complete and furnish. The
directors recommend, in their
report, that il possible the money be
raised by lssu OF stock and sale OF same
at par, aud IL that, after thirty days in
vestigation. can't be done, linen by issue OF
bonds anu subscription among holders OF
stock, Joseph Milbank, who owns three
hlths ofthe stock OF the hotel, being pres
ent expressed his Willingness to put up
| three-hithS of whatever amount may be
! necessary If others will put up the re-
naming two-hfths. Resolutions were
adopted in accordance with the above.
Ine hotel is to ba finished by Sept. l.
AT Americas Monday John Belvln, a
coiored porter, went before justice Stubs
and swQre out a warrant for the arrest OF
Ellis Dennard, charging him with
burglary Ellis was promptly arrested
and brought before'the court for a pre-
llminary hearing, while john went forth
To summons his witnesses. The justice
waited several hours for Johns return,
and as the prisoner and crowd began to
grow impatient he finally sent bailifl TO
look up the tardy plaintiff Several hours
more elapsed and the crowd were
on the point OF adjourning sine
die, when the bailiH returned
with the cheering information that the
! prosecutor had just eloped with the prls-
Oner's wife, and were last seen about two
miles from town and headed toward
| Webster county. This put different
| light on the whole affair, and the prisoner
was forthwith dismissed, whereupOn he
put on his war paint, dug up the toma-
hawk and started in quest of the guilty
pair. Atlast accounts the Coroner mad
| not been notified. that his services were
! needed IN connection with the case.
| Miledgeville Union: The Milledge-
| Vile Iron and Machine Machinery works
are now an established fact. The master
machinlst ESTIMATES that in two years
they Will employ fifty hands. Why not
! bring about this desirable result at once
! by increasing the capital and capacity of
| these works. And why not establish,
also, extensive works with improved ma
chinery run by steam for the manufac-
| ture OF furniture, hubs, spokes, ak ham
dies, barrels, buckets, etc., ETC., In
i l,e1 everything made OF woedy
| for large wood shops. On the
Oconee river below this city there are
large quantities of excellent timber
| hickory. walnut, white and water oak,
| poplar, ash, etc., etc. Not TO utilize this
bountitul gift of nature and then look
with envious eyes on the thrift and pros
| perlty of less favored sections puts to the
blush the boosted enterprise OF our citi-
| zens. Let's take hold Of the plain duties
that lie before us. 1t is the duty of those
whom God has blessed with capital or
credit TO use it TO give employment to
those who need it-so shall prosperity and
happiness smile upon US. Shops for the
manufacture OF this timber would help to
secure the much talked of steamboat on
the Oconee.
Jesup Sentinel: About two weeks be-
foIe his death, while on a visit to mis-
house, Uncle John Gaskin gave me the
following interesting bits of the early his
tory of our county: ''The first Methodist
preacher that preached south Of the Oc-
mulSee river was The Rev. John Twiggs,
who preached at four appointments in
1921. Silas Cooper taught the first school
on the south side OF the river IN 1920, one
mile west OF the place where Needham
Hill now lives; he had only eight pupils,
and taught In 10xl0 foot pole pen. Nat
Ashley ana Abraham Powell were the
first representatives to the Legislature
OF the State elected on the south
side of the Ocmulgee, which was then
Telfair county, in the year 1919, at which
election there were only seventy votes
cast. The first fight with the Indians
was fought at Breakfast Branch, Irwin
county, in 1921; Capt. Mark Wilcox was
in command. In this engagement OAR
ling Griffin and Jake Nebles were killed
and about forty wounded, among them
Capt. Wilcox. Our men captured about
eighty Indian ponies. George NJ. TrOup
and John A. Clark were candidates for
Governor at that time; Troup was elected
by only four votes. The first white settle
ment south OF the river was that of Mr..
Wilkinson, who settled on hill not far
from Archie McClaiu's, near the Oaky
Grove church, about the year 1910. In
those days Mr.. 0askin frequently went
twenty miles TO church and walked the
distance" Mr.. Gaskin being one OF the
first settlers of our section knew is much,
perhaps, as any one living in the county
OF its early history.
nlOuudg JUG " ntIeu CbdbbS SLe&m ydCuL
Angler, Lieut.. Carter commanding, in
spected the work of the dredge In Bruins
wick harbor under contract with the gov
eminent. The entire portion OF the har-
Dor covered by the dredge was thoroughly
sounded, and depth OF fifteen feet at
low water found to exist, although the
government specifications called for only
fourteen. This gives depth at high
water Of twenty-five feet, where has al
ways been shoal, and per.
petual harass to shipping. The
method of procedure so that
each sounding could be inscribed at the
exact spot on the CHARTS quite interest
ing. Two engineers were stationed at
points ON the bank with the lines from
their transits crossing each other in the
channel OF the river. The yacht was
then run across the river in a Zig-zag
style, taking soundings every few feet,
and making recofls OF same. AT the mo.
ment she reached the intersection OF the
lines from the transits a signal was made
and the sounding specially noted,
while the two engineers made a
record OF the exact position with re-
lation 10 the instruments. When this
work was completed, mathematical cal
culations, well known to engineers, easily
established on the chart of the harbor the
exact spot at which the steamer crossed
the lines OF the instruments, and at these
spots on the chart the depths as shown by
the sounding are placed, and the interme-
date soundings filled in from these. Thus